About this title: Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989) was, for much of his short life, obsessed with the idea of nomadism, feeling that restlessness is encoded into human DNA. His first book, IN PATAGONIA, is a most unorthodox travel book (a designation Chatwin disliked), a picaresque chronicle of his own wanderings through the wildest parts of South America. Chatwin writes ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780330256445ISBN:0330256440
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 1979
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Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780330256445ISBN:0330256440
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 1979
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 1979
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 1979
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Edition: First Separate
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780330256445ISBN:0330256440
Description: Collectible; Good. GOOD RECENT PICADOR PB REISSUE, WITH COVER PHOTO BY THE SENATE, STYLISH EDITION, WITH PHOTO SECTION. CLASSIC TRAVEL WRITING BY CHATWIN. LIGHT READING WEAR/CORNER WEAR, GOOD TIDY UNMARKED COPY. Worldwide Shipping IMMEDIATE 1ST CLASS/AIRMAIL DISPATCH. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Published by Picador Pan Books Ltd., London Picador Edition
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780330256445ISBN:0330256440
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: VINTAGE
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780099769514ISBN:0099769514
Description: Published by Vintage in 1999. Paperback. Number of pages: 288. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. Ex-library book (usual stamps and marks). Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: VINTAGE
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780099769514ISBN:0099769514
Description: Published by Vintage in 1999. Paperback. Number of pages: 288. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. Ex-library book (usual stamps and marks). Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
"The truly fine-grained books are always impossible to review or describe. Even dragged-out praise leaves most of the best things unnoted. Certainly this is true in the case of In Patagonia, one of those unclassifiable mandarin anatomies whose summarized "action" but barely suggests the innumerable felicities of perception that make the book. A copy of In Our Time packed in his rucksack, Chatwin busses from Buenos Aires into Patagonia, tramps around, meets people and collects their stories--much as Ishmael "goes whaling" or Bloom "runs some errands and thinks about stuff." Updike, in his reviewer-guise of the Common Reader, on the occasion of Brodsky's Venetian capriccio Watermark marvels at those writers "beyond academic conventions, beyond commercial hopes" who depart from, dispense with or otherwise transcend plot (or the story hooks of "travel writing") to regale us with their "rare sensibility and curious fund of information; we are flattered to be in his or her company" (readers who complain that cetological lore trammels their breeze through Moby Dick miss the point: the prose of that long chapter is splendid). A truly picaresque narrative sensibility (rare enough) and a curio-cabinet of odd learning Chatwin indeed has, plus an enriching assimilation of those masters of unsettling concision, Mandelstam and Borges. Who knew a desert at land's end would offer such a mad dream of the world? Chatwin has the magic eye."
"Enjoyable, but not as enjoyable as The Songlines and a good bit more dated. As opposed to say, Paul Theroux's books and The Songlines I felt the book told me little about the places Chatwin visited and not even that much about Chatwin himself. Perhaps my disappointment reflects inflated expectations but I don't really see why this book is still regarded as a classic."
"An unorthodox work of travel writing, Chatwin voyages to one of the southernmost points on the globe to explore Los Gauchos, abandoned civilizations, and penguin colonies on the tip of Argentina.
The book intrigues from the beginning with talk of old maps that used to show Patagonia overrun by dinosaurs and sea creatures, but gradually becomes less and less interesting, and Chatwin's perspective seems to become more bizarre. A good book to check out if you're in to experimental travel writing, but definitly not a whispy summer read."
"This is one of those books I've tried to read many times, and perhaps the moment wasn't right. It's funny. I find that I can see ways I've changed by how receptive I am to a particular book at a particular moment...In any case I went back to it this time after my son spent some time in Argentina, and then I visited him there. He wanted to make it to Patagonia, but didn't have the time, nor did I, but being that much closer reminded me of the existence of that book, which I recently picked up again. This time, I was riveted. The Butch Cassidy/Sundance Kid stuff is just enthralling, and it is simultaneously romantic and depressing to think about all of the people who have migrated to Patagonia because it is the end of the earth. Chatwin is an old-fashioned storyteller with a gift for detail--really marvelous language. I recommend this book to anyone with a love of history, travel, or language, or who has ever fantasized about escaping the familiar via an adventure."
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